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	<description>Dr. Rick Tietz on allopathic medicine</description>
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		<title>Testosterone Chronicles: The Saga Continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Testosterone fueled feats just never seem to end. Just when I think that somehow, someway middle aged plus males have finally learned that they are not twenty anymore, along comes another poor schmuck, who illustrates that common sense in some guys is just not common. JR (name withheld to prevent further embarrassment) was playing what at first glance appeared to be an innocent game of touch football. His comrades were 8 year old children, who were friends of his daughter.&#8230; <a href="http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11348/testosterone-chronicles-the-saga-continues/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ingrown Toenails: A Ruined Beach Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toenails to some are a vehicle for creativity. Money is spent for pedicures and of course various colors are applied to achieve that perfect look. As the saying goes,&#8221;man plans and God laughs&#8221; so goes it with toenails. Just when your planned that week long vacation to Hawaii, your diet is finally showing some real effects and spent your last dollar for that sexy bikini, you feel this funny feeling in your great toe. Within hours, the toe is red,&#8230; <a href="http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11169/ingrown-toenails-a-ruined-beach-vacation/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11169/ingrown-toenails-a-ruined-beach-vacation/</link>
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		<title>Hair Cells and Hearing: A Reason for Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a drug which has failed to show improvement in one disease works for another. Such is the case with an experimental drug known as a gamma secretase inhibitor (where in God&#8217;s name do these researchers find such names?). It didn&#8217;t work for Alzheimers&#8217; patients, so for one reason I don&#8217;t yet understand, some dudes at Harvard thought-well, why not test this drug on the inner ears of deafened mice. (Is it just me or how did these researchers make&#8230; <a href="http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11272/hair-cells-and-hearing-a-reason-for-hope/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11272/hair-cells-and-hearing-a-reason-for-hope/</link>
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		<title>Berries that are &#8216;Berry&#8217; Good for You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strawberries and blueberries don&#8217;t just taste great, they also can significantly reduce a young women&#8217;s chance of having a heart attack. A twenty year study (which let&#8217;s face it folks must have taken up a career for some of these researchers) of 90,000 women ages 25 to 42 found that those gals who munched on at least 3 servings of these delicious berries weekly were 30% less likely to have suffered a heart attack than their compatriots, who ate only&#8230; <a href="http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11266/berries-that-are-berry-good-for-you/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s In A Name Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog about common names for diseases and physical findings. Well, here&#8217;s some more thoughts about this fascinating topic. Sometimes your discoveries are just so awesome that you hit the jackpot so to speak: three different conditions named after you! The doctor was Cushing and attached to his esteemed name are three items: Cushing&#8217;s disease, which refers to a condition where too much of the hormone cortisol is produced. Cushing&#8217;s syndrome is similar&#8230; <a href="http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11262/whats-in-a-name-part-ii/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11262/whats-in-a-name-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>A Brief Primer on Asthma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody likes to spend half the night coughing, but for asthmatics this can happen very often. Not only do asthmatics cough they also wheeze. Wheezing is caused by turbulent or chaotic air flow from inflamed airways in the lungs. Add on to this narrowing of these airways from muscle spasm and Houston, we have a problem. It becomes more and more difficult to breathe to the point where a sufferer can suffocate from lack of oxygen or too much carbon&#8230; <a href="http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11249/a-brief-primer-on-asthma/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11249/a-brief-primer-on-asthma/</link>
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		<title>Can Vitamins Prevent Cancer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vitamin studies have up until recently had mixed results. For example, a study of Vitamin A showed that it actually increased the risk of lung cancer in smokers who took fairly large quantities. Other studies of antioxidant vitamins have failed to show any benefit in terms of cancer prevention. Still, the vitamin industry is huge and more than willing to shell out whatever it takes to fund studies that hopefully might show some benefit. Well, the vitamin industry finally struck&#8230; <a href="http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11150/can-vitamins-prevent-cancer/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11150/can-vitamins-prevent-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Can we turn on and off our genes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Evolution is a fact and most of the world accepts that genes are passed from one generation to another. The dogma has been that these genes are fixed, only to be changed as natural forces favor those individuals with certain genetic advantages who in turn pass these genes on to offspring. The dogma has been: Genes cannot be turned off or on by experiences or by environment. Well, just like most things that we thought were right, it turns out&#8230; <a href="http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11234/can-we-turn-on-and-off-our-genes/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11234/can-we-turn-on-and-off-our-genes/</link>
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		<title>Some Thoughts On Preventable Deaths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One would think that since we Americans spend more money per capita on health care than any other nation on the planet, that we would enjoy the best health. Well, in many categories we&#8217;re not even in the top 10. Pregnancy related deaths put us somewhere above India but below most industrialized nations. A recent report by the National Research Council found that those of us still under 50 are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases and die prematurely&#8230; <a href="http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11231/some-thoughts-on-preventable-deaths/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11231/some-thoughts-on-preventable-deaths/</link>
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		<title>Beestings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flowers are indeed beautiful. Just think of all the flowers which have been the subject of many a poet&#8217;s verses! And what about the dozen roses, a reasonably sure way of getting many a husband out of the doghouse-at least temporarily. Yet not only do some of these objects of beauty contain enough dander to fund a small drug company&#8217;s allergy drug research, they also attract bees and other stinging insects. For most of us a bee sting is an&#8230; <a href="http://doctordude.blogs.petaluma360.com/11130/beestings/">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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